High food prices in 2008 and 2010 generated concern about food security in developing countries. The number of food insecure people was estimated to have jumped significantly and food assistance donors were faced with unexpectedly high procurement bills. This paper discusses how high food prices...

O município de Itarema vem obtendo, recentemente, elevados níveis de desenvolvimento em relação aos municípios que compõem a Microrregião do Litoral de Camocim e Acaraú. No entanto, esse município vivencia disparidades de desenvolvimento entre suas comunidades devido, em parte, a...

O turismo no espaço rural é uma atividade que está em evidencia e se mostrando cada vez mais promissora em várias regiões do Brasil. A região de Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, é uma das regiões que está sobressaindo nesta atividade, com a preocupação de atender às exigências de...

In a meta-analysis of trade policy models, Hess and von Cramon-Taubadel (2008) use over 5800 simulated welfare effects from 110 studies of potential Doha Development Agenda outcomes to identify characteristics of models, data and policy experiments that influence simulation results. This...

International trade in wheat accounts for approximately one third of world grain trade and is expected to double by 2050.The KRU (Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine) countries account for approximately a quarter of world wheat exports and are collectively considered one of the key wheat exporting...

A number of major agricultural exporting countries responded to high food prices from 2007 to 2010 by imposing export restrictions on agricultural commodities in efforts to constrain domestic food-price inflation. These restrictions reduced the volume of internationally traded food, and...